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IMAP expands advisory board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  SUNDAY, 11 DEC 2016
The Institute of Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) has made a series of appointments to its advisory board. The appointments come as part of the association's growth strategy, leading on from IMAP chair Toby Potter's decision to take on a more full-time ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... in the labour market has slowed, conditions remain supportive of ongoing recovery". US non-manufacturing survey The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing index surged to 57.2 in November - the highest reading since April 2015 -- from ...

FOX launches private investor centre

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... director of San Francisco-based Lattice Strategies for the past five years. She was also previously president of the Institute for Private Investors. "I am delighted to join the team at Family Office Exchange and extend their three decades of work serving ...

ANZ appoints sustainable head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... entrenched ANZ's growing reputation for sustainable finance capability." Tapley is a board member of the Carbon Market Institute, advisory panel member for the Australia-Indonesia Centre's Urban Water Cluster research project and alumni of the Cambridge ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... 47.9 in the previous month. Average wages slowed to a reading of 53.8 from 59.0 in October. US manufacturing survey The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing index rose to 53.2 in November from 51.9 in the previous month. This is the highest ...

ASIC falls on fund disclosure sword

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... were part of a forum in Sydney that discussed several regulatory issues and RG97 was high on the agenda. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees senior policy adviser Karen Volpato said the extension "will provide the industry time to collaboratively ...

IPA appoints new president

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
The Institute of Public Accountants has elected a new president. The IPA's board chose Damien Moore, currently a director, and a senior tax manager at Schulz Hobbs. He is also a director of the Institute of Financial Accountants, and has previously ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...

PC to deliver Super 2.0: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... competitive." Not all delegates were entirely supportive of this idea. Speaking on the same panel as Loane, Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia said the emphasis on competition missed the point of superannuation ...

Investors expect gender diversity: CFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... prefer to work with a team of gender diverse investment professionals. CFA Societies Australia, a member society of CFA Institute, is calling on financial services to lead Australian business as advocates and practitioners of diversity and inclusion ...